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Just came back from wonderful JCrete® 2018. This year didn’t disappoint, we had close to 110 people openly sharing ideas and knowledge on both technical and soft skills matters. Here’s a picture of the final schedule, captured by fellow Java Champion Badr Elhouari: If you are wondering what was the schedule of @JCreteUnconf 2018! Really 💜 my first #JCrete & #Unconference experience 🤩 brilliant people with top notch content. Thanks a lot for all the disorganizers @heinzkabutz @javaperftuning @rgransberger @aalmiray @IXSC & others 👍💪👌 pic.twitter.com/iHk0dxSqle — Badr Elhouari (@badrelhouari) July 26, 2018 Every single one of those notes represents a Read More

How many times have you found yourself in a situation where you can’t tell if the artifacts used by the application are the correct ones or not? How many times have you looked at a bug report stating that the problem is caused by version X of a particular artifact but you are certain the bug was fixed in said release? On closer inspection (after unpacking, debugging, even decompiling!) you find that the artifact in production is not the right one even though the version appears to be the correct one. One option we have to mitigate this problem is Read More

Both Maven and Gradle are popular choices when it comes to building Java projects. These tools share common traits but there are some key differences that make you more productive depending on a particular scenario (no, I’m not referring to the XML DSL vs. Groovy/Kotlin DSL schism), case in point scopes vs. configurations. Scopes and configurations are used by each tool to define dependencies and how they affect different classpaths, such as the compilation and runtime classpaths. Maven defines 6 scopes: compile, runtime, provided, system, test, and import. Gradle on the other hand defines the following configurations when the Java Read More

Maintaining a project in a healthy state should have a higher priority in light of recent events. There are a handful of techniques and measures that can be applied to keep the codebase neat and tidy. If your project is built with Gradle then the following list may come in handy when taking matters in to your own hands: ossindex versions license jdeps jacoco checkstyle pmd findbugs/spotbugs codenarc sonarqube Each plugin takes care of an specific dimension and together they can strengthen your codebase. Let’s begin with the ossindex plugin. This plugin scans project dependencies and checks if there are Read More